Since Alaska’s pharmacies are already tied to abortion pills, then every amendment to HB 195 mattered.

Unfortunately, the House Finance process exposed how weak some amendments were — and how direct pro-life protections were killed.

Before they voted against the bill, they voted for it.

Before they voted against abortion pills in pharmacies, they voted against blocking abortion pill access in Alaska’s pharmacies.

Two abortion-related amendments were offered in House Finance on May 15, 2026.

The first amendment was a legislative word salad that promised to restrict drugs regulated by the FDA’s Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies, or REMS.

The promise was that if either the FDA REMS or a drug manufacturer requires a “certified education program” before a drug can be prescribed, then it could not be prescribed by a pharmacist.

The amendment falls far short of its goal.

Neither the FDA nor the mifepristone manufacturers require any kind of “certified education program.”

You’ll hear the words “certified” or “certification” thrown around in debates about mifepristone, as if there is an elaborate certification process that abortion doctors and pharmacists must go through before they prescribe or dispense mifepristone.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

A “certified” prescriber or dispensing pharmacist has simply signed a prescribing or dispensing contract.

The “certification” has nothing to do with education or training.

So just like any other salad, the amendment took a lot of space but offered nothing of substance.

But it gets worse.

The amendment said nothing about pharmacists dispensing mifepristone.

So, according to HB 195, any pharmacist can sign a manufacturer’s contract — “get certified” — and begin dispensing mifepristone when an abortion doctor, nurse, midwife, or PA sends a prescription for an abortion.

In a nightmare scenario, an abortionist in Anchorage — or New York, for that matter — writes a mifepristone prescription.

A pregnant teen then picks it up in a dispensing pharmacy in Tok, Unalaska, or any number of places too far away from properly equipped medical facilities when she becomes one of the 11% who has a serious or life-threatening complication.

But it gets worse.

Because the amendment was trying to target mifepristone, or so they want us to believe, with its FDA REMS complications, it totally neglected the other, more prevalent but less widely known drug: misoprostol.

Misoprostol is carried in nearly every pharmacy in America — and Alaska.

It has many off-label uses, and abortion is one of those.

First, misoprostol is drug number two in the mifepristone regimen.

The FDA does not allow mifepristone to be prescribed for abortions without misoprostol.

In that combination, mifepristone is the killing agent.

It effectively starves and suffocates the child while making his mother’s uterus an uninhabitable hellscape.

But mifepristone does very little to expel the baby’s lifeless body.

Misoprostol causes contractions and bleeding that pushes the baby’s corpse out of his mother’s womb.

Second, misoprostol-only abortions are not only common, but they are also more prevalent across the world because they are far less expensive.

In the case of misoprostol-only abortions, a much larger dose of misoprostol is used to start contractions strong enough to expel a living child out of his mother’s womb.

It is likely the child will die in the process.

Because misoprostol is not regulated by the FDA REMS, and because it is “generally available in pharmacies,” the bill all but greenlights misoprostol-only abortions.

Back to the HB 195 amendment.

It effectively leaves the door open for pharmacists to prescribe, administer, and dispense mifepristone abortions.

And it takes the door completely off the hinges for misoprostol-only abortions.

This amendment, offered by Representative Elexie Moore, easily passed the House Finance Committee — as you would expect.

If the amendment intended to restrict abortion pill prescriptions, why would the pro-abortion Democrats who control the House Finance Committee allow it to pass?

Next, Representative Allard offered Amendment #5.

That amendment would have prohibited any abortion-inducing drugs from being prescribed or dispensed in pharmacies — including Ella, mifepristone, and misoprostol.

Allard’s amendment targeted mifepristone specifically, and all abortion pills generally.

Sadly, Allard’s pro-life amendment failed in a 9 to 2 vote, with Representatives Moore, Stapp, and Bynum joining the pro-abortion Democrats in killing the amendment.

The amendment Representative Allard offered would have advanced the pro-life cause, not just blocked abortion pill expansion.

There is simply no excuse for joining the abortion lobby in a vote to kill an amendment that would have protected babies and their mothers from pharmacist-distributed abortion pills.